Bizen, an innocent young man who happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time and who Shiki murdered in self-defense. Making the matter even worse for him, he is later confronted by Bizen's best friend Makihara, who becomes an inescapable living reminder to Shiki of the innocent life he cut short when he's forced to take him prisoner and confine him in his own home.

As it turns out, the wife is apparently innocent, and the husband is apparently guilty (though they don’t find any hard evidence to support this claim), and so he is tortured both physically and psychologically and then strangled to death. (Which is a shame, too, because he looked an awful lot like T.O.P’s character in the k-drama IRIS.) And guess what? All the characters consider themselves heroes for, hooray! Saving the innocent woman and killing the evil man! The innocent woman who, by the way, now has to live on her own trying to raise her deceased sister’s child and who will now probably be traumatized for life when she eventually realizes that her husband wasn’t taken away, as she was told, but rather brutally murdered. Excuse the sarcasm, but geez, good job breaking it, heroes. You guys really saved the day, didn’t you? Despite the fact that the author could have very easily justified the characters’ reservations with killing her because of Itsuki’s vision that suggested the woman’s innocence, she instead chooses to focus on the fact that she’s a woman. What confuses me most of all, though, is that the author seems to celebrate and condone this choice, treating a murder as something righteous for the first time in the series, which I thought was a little odd since the author is apparently a woman herself. Honestly, does she really believe that the even the most screwed up of women deserves gracious mercy simply because she’s a woman?

Honestly, I’m glad she died. At least she did something useful for once by saving a child before she went.